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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:58:14 +0000
Subject: Re: neither/nor (was: Righteous War? Or bluff?)
From: michaelP <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>


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on 19/2/03 11:01 pm, Paul Murphy at Villanova-AT-btopenworld.com wrote:

> techne means art in Greek, not technology, although this may be a derivation
> of techne

For better or worser, Paul, techne for the Greeks means something more like:
bringing forth and showing what does not bring forth and show itself by
itself; such techne is thus differentiated from physis which is the realm of
that which emerges and shows itself by itself. Thus techne is a realm that
includes those of 'art', 'handicraft', the 'technical' and eventually
'technology'. The sense of 'making' involved here is not exclusively that of
human making/creating; in the same way, physis is not exclusively the realm
of what we now call 'nature' and the 'natural'. These days the flattened
casting of beings is such that these two realms are now opposed, now
combined, the sense of emergence (whether by itself or not) now dimmed (and
damned), as we can see in oxymoronic formulations like 'virtual reality' and
'reality TV'. And, even more urgent to take on board now, is Heidegger's
hint that the essence (whatness, quiddity) of technology is nothing
technological...

regards

michaelP 

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Re: neither/nor (was: Righteous War? Or bluff?) on 19/2/03 11:01 pm, Paul Murphy at Villanova-AT-btopenworld.com wrote:

> techne means art in Greek, not technology, although this may be a derivation
> of techne

For better or worser, Paul, techne for the Greeks means something more like: bringing forth and showing what does not bring forth and show itself by itself; such techne is thus differentiated from physis which is the realm of that which emerges and shows itself by itself. Thus techne is a realm that includes those of 'art', 'handicraft', the 'technical' and eventually 'technology'. The sense of 'making' involved here is not exclusively that of human making/creating; in the same way, physis is not exclusively the realm of what we now call 'nature' and the 'natural'. These days the flattened casting of beings is such that these two realms are now opposed, now combined, the sense of emergence (whether by itself or not) now dimmed (and damned), as we can see in oxymoronic formulations like 'virtual reality' and 'reality TV'. And, even more urgent to take on board now, is Heidegger's hint that the essence (whatness, quiddity) of technology is nothing technological...

regards

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